May 14, 2024 – What Are You Thinking About?

What Are You Thinking About?
May 14, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 12:5-8
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

    Sometimes people wonder why it’s important to guard what we see and hear. As a pastor and friend, I have recommended that people listen to godly music that ministers to their hearts. I often hear responses like, “Oh preacher, it’s just music.” When I suggest reading or watching something more wholesome than certain novels or TV programs, I hear, “But I really like them, I’ve been watching or reading them for years.”

    So, why is what we see and hear important? Well, ask yourself: Is what we watch on TV or read in romance novels better or worse today than it was years ago? The obvious answer is worse. Why is that? It’s because we have learned to accept or tolerate more and more garbage over the years of watching and reading. Our minds have become conditioned and contaminated by the world’s escalation of filth.

    Our verses today say that the thoughts of a righteous person produce right words and right actions, leading to right rewards. Part of that reward is that other people trust honest and upright individuals. However, it also states that the thoughts of the wicked produce poor advice, corrupt actions, and questionable lifestyles. They too eventually receive just rewards, including the fact that nobody wants to be around someone who lies or is always trying to hurt or destroy someone else.

    What we feed our minds is as important as what we feed our bodies. Our thoughts and behaviors are being developed daily by what we feed our minds.

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    In the computer world, there’s a saying, “garbage in… garbage out.” You’ll also get bad information if you put the wrong information into the computer. Your results will reflect what’s put in. In speaking about the greatest computer the world has ever known, our mind, God said it this way in Proverbs 23:7, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: …”

What are you thinking about?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: May 14, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    1 Chronicles 14-17
   Proverbs 12:5-8

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
   2 Samuel 23-24
   John 3